That's a decrease of 52.9 percent from 2016, when the city spent $2.10 million.
City of Champaign Township has a population of 86,637.
Since 2001, the City of Champaign Township budget has grown by 38.7 percent, from $712,104. The city population has grown 36.4 percent over the same period, from 63,500.
Salaries accounted for 35.7 percent of city spending in 2017. City of Champaign Township property taxpayers paid $352,398 for seven full-time employees, or an average of $50,343 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the city had seven full-time employees and spent $400,715, or $57,245 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.